Product Developer

• About Twelve
• Twelve designs and builds the world’s most inspiring merchandise and packaging for the world’s most coveted brands. With deep expertise across global production, creative innovation, and sustainability, we turn bold ideas into elevated, high-impact realities. Our clients—ranging from luxury fashion and beauty to leading lifestyle brands—trust us to deliver unforgettable experiences through beautifully executed product and packaging.

• Position Summary
• As a Product Developer focused on Hydration at Twelve, you will drive the end-to-end development of innovative, high-quality drinkware and hydration products, including bottles, tumblers, travel mugs, lids, straws, handles, and accessories. You will partner closely with creative, industrial design, engineering, sourcing, quality, and factory teams to bring concepts to life, ensuring each product delivers on brand, consumer experience, performance, cost, safety, and manufacturability. This role requires strong technical execution, commercial judgment, and the ability to manage complex product programs in a fast-paced, global environment.

Key Responsibilities

Client and Category Partnership

Serve as the primary link between internal creative and industrial design teams, sourcing partners, and factories, ensuring seamless execution of hot and cold hydration products and packaging

Develop a deep understanding of each client’s brand, target consumer, price point, and hydration strategy to deliver cohesive, commercially relevant assortments

Collaborate with design, engineering, quality, and sales teams to introduce new materials, constructions, features, and manufacturing techniques into product development

Project Management & Product Development

Own multiple hydration programs simultaneously, managing timelines, budgets, quality, and approvals across seasonal and evergreen assortments

Build and maintain detailed development schedules covering concept handoff, costing, prototyping, testing, tooling, sampling, production, and delivery

Navigate competing priorities with strong judgment, flexibility, urgency, and a solutions-oriented mindset

Translate creative concepts into clear, actionable product briefs, technical specifications, bills of materials, packaging requirements, and factory comments

Develop accurate specifications for bottles, tumblers, travel mugs, lids, straws, handles, seals, and related hydration accessories

Evaluate and refine prototypes and samples for construction, ergonomics, leak resistance, thermal performance, durability, fit, finish, cleanability, and overall user experience

Sourcing and Costing

Partner with domestic and international vendors to source materials, develop components, negotiate pricing, and execute multi-SKU hydration programs

Balance target cost and margin with design integrity, performance, quality, packaging, tooling, freight, and brand standards

Qualifications

5 + years of product development experience in hot and cold hydration, drinkware, housewares, outdoor products, food and beverage containers, or a related consumer product category

Proven ability to manage the full product lifecycle from concept and specification through prototyping, testing, tooling, production, and delivery

Strong knowledge of stainless steel, ceramic, glass, copolyester, polypropylene, silicone, coatings, decoration methods, vacuum insulation, molding, metal forming, and assembly processes

Experience reviewing product samples and performance testing, including leak, thermal, drop, durability, fit, finish, and cleanability

Experience working directly with domestic and overseas manufacturing partners on technical development and production execution

Strong costing and negotiation skills, with the ability to evaluate tooling, materials, packaging, freight, duties, and margin

Clear and effective communicator across design, sales, client, and factory teams

Working knowledge of food-contact materials, product safety, quality requirements, and responsible material selection is strongly preferre

Working knowledge of AI tools ( i.e. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), with the ability to apply them to streamline workflows, strengthen analysis, and improve business outcomes.

What You Can Expect:

Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life)

Hybrid work environment

Mental Health Mondays: Once a month our offices close globally (that's an additional 12 days per year)

Generous Paid Time Off -- Including your birthday, personal days, and time off around holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Family planning and wellness benefits

Summer Fridays

Discretionary Bonuses

Salary: $85k depending on experience

Twelve Inc. is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. It is the policy of the Company to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, alienage or citizenship status, disability, or handicap, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.